An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Self-evaluation and assessment should be a major part of our lives as believers
It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.